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Heard a noteworthy quote today? Put it here.
So, Linux is a totally free operating system that has Microsoft all worked up. Here's a fistfull of BillG's latest lies:
"Then you get to the issue of who is going to be the most innovative. You know, will it be capitalism, or will it be just people working at night? There's always been a free software world. And you should understand Microsoft thinks free software is a great thing. Software written in universities should be free software. But it shouldn't be GPL software. GPL software is like this thing called Linux, where you can never commercialize anything around it; that is, it always has to be free. And, you know, that's just a philosophy. Some said philosophy wasn't around much anymore, but it's still there. And so that's where we part company."This is so packed full of errors, it's not even funny. And I like the part where Bill insinuates that philosophy is bad. Or maybe it's just that the philosophy of sharing gets in the way of his philosophy.
well, its hard to find a common link between the corporate whores who live their entire lives centered around superior business models, and the ideals that drive profit-hungry businesses like microsoft. unfortunately the 'philosophy' around LINUX being free just doesn't compute with Bill. its too bad he doesn't just give up the fight against LINUX and focus his efforts on coming up with a product superior enough to compel people to actually buy it. i, for one, use whatever computer is available to me, and whatever OS it happens to run. im not a techie, and i don't buy any of the stuff, so it is all lost on me. im just a user with DSL and a lot of time.i think Bill's statement is pretty much nonsense, and sounds like the words of a man who feels truly threatened. and that threat is what (hopefully) drives the market to come up with better products over time.
anyway, he's a dick. you're going to see a lot of posts from me until i get another job. hopefully soon.
i think, grammatically, my first sentence above is quite misleading. i meant to say its hard to find a link between the ideals of $$hungry dudes like BillG. and the people out there using and supporting and improving LINUX because technology should be available to everybody, not just those who can afford a new OS every year.i hate when i don't proofread my posts. sorry...
"or you could come by my apartment"
"no really, i read books!"
"i AM deep, Bitch!!"
"Let's go home."
"Shut up and sit down, you big bald fuck!"
"You have just been murdered -- again!"
'i bent my wookie...' 'what's a diorama?'
THERE'S NO CHEESE ON YOU!
"or else I would have been forced to hate the next two films"
'There's usually only one 20-40, but that's like saying there's only one Sophia Loren'
So, do you want to come by and see my recording studio?
i have many problems / fears i can't ignore / i don't know the meaning of self destruction / i have many questions / places i can go / i don't know the meaning of "no trespassing"
"I left it in the future." -- Me (or was it crackmonkey? the story is muddy in my mind now), regarding my Encryption key.
Okay, so I bugged you about your GPG key, and you said "Why of course I made one... I just have to... go get it...." and then softly, as an afterthought even, you said "It's in the future."This I immediately shortened to the catchy "I left it in the future!", which sounds a lot more like a Tick thing to say. Like, you're implying that you tend to travel in time a lot! LIke, you were just in the future a while ago, and dropped it without thinking. YOu'll just have to go back there to get it!
"Oh, this question is definitely worth my time and consideration -- DELETED!" -- Strong Bad
talking about the DVD of the movie Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
'Stephen Baldwin and Gary Busey star in this hilarious sequel.'
I ask you: does it get any better than this folks?
Ha ha the future rests with the children!
"yo BAM! - so i be checkin my emailz, and i get this message from some 'pedro' mutha . . . and i think to myself, i sure as a mutha don't knizzow any 'pedro' BAM! . . . and there askin me ta join some emailz crew . . . emailz crew?!? but i think on it for a bitz, an i decide that i aint never been tha type of mutha to turn down a crew, so i sign up. but then i think, yo BAM!, what if they hit me wit tha service charge? so i send this 'vinegar' crew an email bout how i better not be gettin no check in tha pizzost, or else they be gettin the back hand, ALL BUISNESS STYLE! BAM! and they send me an email - yo thanks for joining, and 'be nice' - be nice? now they be insultin me like i have an attitizznude problem! but it's all good. so i get on tha list, and i be surfin, and lo and behizzold, my homies are on the wizzneb! all rock star style n' jizznazz! i was wonderin why i never hear from them anymore, and now i know its cause they got tha cash money! so yo, can i get two dollars? unless, that is, its your last two dollars."
So like, if you're doing a link or something, please use the preview button to test it out. YOu can always click back to the submission form and hit post when you know it works.I mean, I really don't care about the bad links or whatever, but that's what the preview button is for.
That URL worked before. Must have moved.
and it's working now. NO idea.
So I says to 'dis guy, "Enter Exclusive Fish", an' HE says, "Enter Recipient:", an' I'm thinkin', "WHAT?!"...
last year i worked at j.c.'s conoco and country mart at the corner of 52 and county 12 in lovely oronoco, mn. some funny fella had put a quarter under the glass countertop to fool folks into trying to pick it up (ha ha! hilarious!). two sweet young junior high local girls came by, tried to pick it up, couldn't (ha ha! hilarious!), and said:teehee! that's jewish!and left. kids are so cute!
Yeah, when I grew up in southeast MN, people would say things such as that. I never understood why.
by some comedian whose name I missed;"..and the audience usually gets the joke much quicker than we think."
which goes a long way to explain the awful, condescending, punchline-telgraphing, poor timing state of comedy in this country.
"We're some kind of tough."
GWB concluding a not-so-lucid speech about the new border security bill.
the first sentence:Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware,-- the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stocking'd-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by the ringing Lids of various Boilers and Stewing-Pots, fragrant with Pie- Spices, peel'd Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar,-- the Children, having all upon the fly, among rhythmic slaps of Batter and Spoon, coax'd and stolen what they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy Advent, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House, years since given over to their carefree Assaults.
i believe there is a book club in the offing. join the expedition to pynchonland!
I tried to read Mason & Dixon, but didn't get very far. I tried to read Gravity's Rainbow, and also didn't get very far. A pattern?
Try Finnegan's Wake.
Well, I tried Ulysses. What a tedious waste of paper.I heard a story about Finnegans Wake, but I don't know if it's true. Apparently Joyce was dictating part of it and someone knocked on the door, so he said "Come in", which was duly transcribed. The secretary realised her mistake, went to correct it, and Joyce said "Leave it in". And that is why I think Joyce is a waste of space.
You have definitely got to be in the right frame of mind for JJ, and this is one I can rarely keep for very long. I think The Cat and the Devil is his best, probably because it has a cat in it.
did anyone else hear on npr this morning how there are tons of complaints in california about the quality of the bud the government is supplying to medicinal marajuana users? apparently, it's all sticks and seeds and everybody is complaining. one dude says he's so disgusted he's stopped smoking j's altogether. maybe this is an argument against legalization - give the government something to do and they'll find a way to screw it up. i ask you, how hard can it be to come up with some thai stick in california? maybe they should have contracted out to an indepentent supplier...i'm sure they could have just asked around down at the beach...
i know some cats who know some cats who can get you what you want. id just buy my own stuff and claim that i got it from the government if i had the legitimate claim in the first place.
i've got that old rheumetiz don'cha know, and since there's a history of glaucoma in the family i figure i need a rigorous preventitive regime...and don't get me started on the vomiting - ever since i read nausea i can't see a tree but i do that technicolor yawn...i'll have my people be in touch...
oh yeah, and i was listening to the cbc a couple weeks ago and i also heard about the canuck govt.'s recent follies - seems they gave manitoba (i think) a contract to grow a patch of that green asperin for a special program, had all the patients lined up, then they find out the manitoba project, who decided to grow their crop in some abandoned mine, got such a crappy crop they had to trash the whole stash and delay delivery of the product until they can figure out how to grow something decent (underground - in an abandoned mine - in manitoba). it boggles the mind. could it be they'd have better luck talking to some of the good citizens of british columbia? naw.
so who's that eskimo
that you took in from the cold?
in from the cold?
well you set him on fire
to try to wake him up
but he wouldn't wake up.
trapped in the ice:
how will we find you?
how will we find you?
so call the fireman
and he'll climb up his ladder.
right up his ladder.
he'll say "what's the matter
with your flaming eskimo?
your eskimo's on fire!"
Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers this beauty in Almost Famous as Lester Bangs:
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with people when you're uncool."
"when shit brings you down, just say "fuckit", and eat yerself some muther-fuckin' candy."paul sedaris
as quoted by his brother david
in david's story "you can't kill the rooster"
from david's book barrel fever and other stories
"Marijuana is still illegal, kind of."- an Oklahoma State Trooper
"We know God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."
blvd... The one evening at CPBC with the entire night sky moving with swirls making the woods of the U.P. into a cathederial of light... Is that what Jane Erye was talking about?
"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say." - President Clinton May 29, 1993
I can't think of that night at all without becoming completely, utterly, simply happy.
"The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience."
He who angers you controls you.
Overheard/overseen on Slarshdawt;
"...their security was like Swiss cheese: full of holes".I'm just puzzled why they thought they needed to explain the comparison. How else is security like Swiss cheese? (okay, "it stinks")
"...it's tasty with mayo and ham!"
with a side of coleslaw
God is good, but not safe;
Faithful, but not predictable;
Holy, but not distant.
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else."
"If you go in there, don't. touch. anything."
"you ain't even cousins?"
lukas and pedro
"are you sure you aint related?"
glad see your back in the dinner luke-ass
"You're not a citizen, your a consumer, man." Preceded by another great line about government or something that made this one even funnier...but I seem to have forgotten it.
"I'm really not afraid of being mugged. In fact, I welcome it sometimes. I have no money, just don't hurt me."
"Unpopular Book: Sweat The Small Stuff"
"lee used to be in a black sabbath tribute band, he was gezzer."-big john.
this is right after big john came back from the stones show at the aragon. john is the drunkest i've seen him and he's pissed, lee told everyone at the wood before john came in to say "thats nice" and walk away. so, john was getting back at lee cause he was tell baggins what a horrible band black sabbath was live.
disregard that part of my diary entry.
funny shit with lee and john. lee used to be Geezer Butler (the bassist) in a Sabbath cover band. how cool is that? (hint: very cool)
"These are the last of your filthy american coins." -- J. Random Dieter
2funny
...its not my van. i don't own a van.
"When George made a grilled cheese for me there was love in that sandwich."
I'm proud to be an American!
"Moderately wise each one should be,
Not overwise, for a wise man's heart
Is seldom glad."
from the Elder Edda
"I definatley work with the qualitative more than the quantitative. Statistics are human beings with the tears rubbed off."
"A catholic school girl has a sinful secret and Bill Smith is going to find out.
(man's voice): 'Mary, we need to talk' (door closes)
Tonight on an all new $TVSHOW on CBS."
I don't remember the names or what showit is, but it sounded like an ad for a softporn flick or something.
Girl 1: What time is it? Girl 2 looks around, about to say something, when girl 1 starts laughing hysterically and she snorts out- Girl 1: Too blad there's a cock on the wall! Both giggle fervently.
whats that?
Taco Burrito King! Belmont and Harlem...the one and the only.
"the only motivation i have to study ever is fear"-my friend Cord. this evening via an AIM chat.
cord is a junior at an ivy league school. we were discussing the fact that we were both burning the midnite oil on huge projects that we had procrastinated on.
waggins after biting into a hot cinnamon roll:"it's like an orgasm in my mouth..."
that was a rare case of me not thinking before i speak.
"That building is made out of real Lincoln Logs, not the toy ones."
"Careful, you could put an eye out with that F sharp."- Someone playing guitar at my house last night.
My little brother at Ocean Adventure (Denver's answer to the Shedd Aquarium).
My four year old niece Kadi asked "Is Grandpa Santa's brother?" this New Year's Eve while we were waiting in line to see The Lion King on IMAX. Grandpa (my step dad) has dressed as Santa for the kids since they were born and has done Santa gigs for several years where my sister works (a day care center). Kadi caught on quickly that the Santa that visited her at home is actually Grandpa.
"I want to be an alien when I grow up" --she's 3.
People who aren't from the U.S. sometimes try to use American slang...this is a classic:"Your shit is all apart"
what he meant was "Get your shit together"
I was on the floor.
That's fricken hysterical!!
and that's funny. . .I'm going to have to pass that on to my guys in the line.
Sounds familiar....Random Quote: "I've got a book in my pocket, no really! I'll put it back. (long pause) ... but I'm taking all the pages."
This is from my 9th Grade Basketball Coach - December 1993."You guys get to play high school basketball. Not many people get to do that. You should take pride in yourselves. What would you rather do? Play basketball, or sit home eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and watching Beavis and Butthead all day?"
posted in the "other topics' at 2+2.
-"I never have quite figured out why the sexual urges of men & women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Mars & Venus thing. And, I never have figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart. And, I never yet have figured out how the sexual desire gene gets thrown into a state of turmoil, when it hears the words "I do".
One evening last week, my wife and I got into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me."
I said, "WHAT??" So she says the words that I and every husband on the planet dreads. She explains that I'm obviously not in tune with her emotional needs as a "Woman". I'm thinking, "What was her first clue?" I finally realise that nothing is going to happen that night, so I go to sleep.
The very next day we went shopping at a big department store...walked around while she tried on three very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take, so I told her to take all three of them. She then tells me that she wants matching shoes worth $200 each to which I say OK.
And then we go to the Jewellery Dept. where she gets set of diamond earrings. Let me tell you ...she was so excited. She must have thought that I was one wave short of a shipwreck, but I don't think she cared. I think she was testing me when she asked for a tennis bracelet because she doesn't even play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I told her that it was OK.
She was almost sexually excited from all of this and you should have seen her face when she said, "I'm ready to go, let's go to the cash register I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No, honey. I don't feel like buying all this stuff now."
You should have seen her face it went completely blank. I then said, "Really honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "You obviously are not in tune with my financial needs as a "Man."
I figure that I should be having sex again sometime during the spring of 2005."
that's all.
you know that they're just as dumb as women, just dumb in different things, like cooking.I'm sooooooooooo kidding, if you guys give me shit for this, i'll rate you as tourist
who got drunk and insisted that he was going to get "fools of hatred" tatooed on his arm. and we were like "don't you mean 'full of hatred"? and he was like "no! fools of hatred" yeah dude the truth is out thereoh yeah i was a this japanese market once, like, two months ago, they had this new product that they were hyping. It was a "cervical pillow", i died.
i hope you know i didn't share the sentiments behind that joke. i just thought it was funny. we are dumb. but the flip side is how freakin evil you ladies are.
That joke was *hysterical*.But 2005? He should try 2010. And evil? Oh dearie me oh my, whatever do you mean?
ok. you know we're dumb. we even know we're dumb. but in my experience you guys seem to derive some perverse pleasure from punishing us to the fullest for how dumb we are. and we can't help it. and we do try.
obvioulsy there is some cynical part of me that is posting this. i don't actually believe it 100%. but there is a power that women have over men, and some choose to wield it maliciously. im not stupid enough to miss THAT.
batting eyelashes, for one, is an evil trick. it doesn't work when we do it. but it can get you the world if employed judiciously. that's pretty evil in my book.
Where is Kerry when you need him, eh? I wonder what the percentage is at. We lost mother theresa and it skyrocketed. For those who don't know what I am talking about. Kerry used to sit in George's and calculate the percentage of evil women in the world.
Not all women are evil. Not all women use their sexuality as a weapon. That said, women began to accent their femininity back when the world was controlled and dominated by men in order to try to gain some sort of advantage and/or sense of safety when they totally relied on men for their well-being. When they, in fact, had no other means of power... If women are still using their sexuality to get things, it just shows that they have been conditioned to do so...OR that there still is not a balance of power between women and men (those of you wishing to argue this should know that women still only get about $.80 / a man's $1.00 for equal work).
Also, I don't really think men are dumb. I think that all this battle between the sexes crap is an excuse so that people don't have to try to understand the other.
...or make sacrifices for one another.
I think that there is just way too much miscommunication between the sexes, I realize this more and more every day I am married, me and my wife just don't think the same way, and there's nothing I can do about that. It's hard to deal with sometimes, but women using there sexuality actually stems from far deeper blvdgirl, almost all species have selective women, it has to do with the fact that in breeding the female has more energy and time invested than the man, the whole taking care of the brood thing, I could go into more detail, but basically they CAN be choosy, so they ARE, and that lets them use there sexuality as a tool because success in nature is passing your genes on to the next generation, and we all want to be successful right?
Ab-so-lute-ly. And while there may be some women who may use such "wiles" to their advantage, there are just as many men who use physical attributes/prestige/charm whatever to THEIR advantage over the suckers who fall for it, be it woman or another man in a personal/romantic/business situation. And, I don't think men are dumb at all. Unfortunately there are dumb or mean or cruel people of each gender, and they're just jerks regardless of their sex.That being said, I feel people are people and of course there are physiological differences between the sexes, but we all have the same needs, motivations and basic feelings as human beings. Sadly, I think a lot of women are still conditioned to feel that their sexuality and physical attributes are bargaining items for them, more so than men, but I don't think it's some innate female trait. It's so trite but true--though we're all supposed to be equal now and women can achieve whatever they want blah blah blah it's because of all this media b.s. we are inundated with, and I don't think it can be disputed that women (wrongly so) are more judged and valued by their looks than men.
Recently my boyfriend and I were discussing all the movies out at the moment. He was saying how this and that actress sucks but didn't mention many guys (yes, I know the P.C. term is female "actor"), and I got mad and said he was being sexist. His justification was that Hollywood is so skewed because men don't necessarily have to be gorgeous to be successful actors, and are chosen based on their acting ability, but very few women who are not exceptionally good-looking become mega-famous. This leaves out a lot of potentially really talented female actors. If you look at foreign films as opposed to American (and of course there are many enlightened American directors, but I am talking the standard Hollywood slop), there are REAL people in those movies and consequently higher-quality acting in general, 'cause they don't immediately discard people who aren't conventionally beautiful. It all makes me so mad I could puke, but I don't know how this discussion got on "Eggs" so I'll leave it at that.
pedro.
This whole eighty cents on the dollar thing. If women get paid less, and don't like it, why take the job? It's shitty if a waiter gets paid more than a waitress, but they always have and excuse for that kind of stuff. When you get to salaried jobs though, i think that people should know how much that job should be worth, the should do some reasearch and find out what they pay. If I apply for a job and they offer me 50 a year for it and I accept, nice. If they offer a woman the same job for only 40 a year, and she takes it, she should've known better, there still isn't an excuse for it, but nobody makes you accept and offer, that's why unemployment. I really would like to see the raw data for those studies though.To summarize, it's crappy that anyone would be offered less pay for any certain job (unless they're given more benefits), but nobody has to accept a job offer.
Neo, this is nothing personal because I like you.BUT!!!! Get real.
The point of this figure--80 cents to the $1 (which used to be something even more abysmal, like .60 to the $1) is--first, men are often chosen over women for jobs when they have the same experience/skills necessary simply by virtue of being men. This refers back to what I earlier stated about men being judged more on their accomplishments and personal achievements than women, who are judged on other factors, like how "nice" they are or their looks. Also, employers are prone to think that a woman will be a less dedicated employee because she will have children and family as a "distraction." Not taking into account that there are plenty of equally dedicated fathers and family men, but that's just the stereotype about mothers/wives/daughters whatever.
THIS ties in to the fact that women have traditionally been thought of as homemakers (which does have evolutionary basis in what BigJ said), while the men are out bringing home the bacon. A woman is thus often forced out of necessity to take a lower paying job, because it's all she can get, or employers will pay a woman less for the same job a man may have because it all comes back to the cruel laws of the job market and the fact that they know the women will take the job & the pay due to a lack of options.
I did waitress at one time, and probably made more on average than the waiters. This is because of heavier tips from licentious men or people who thought I was "such a sweet girl." So it's a case-by-case basis. Obviously a man who was a waiter would make less than a woman doctor, but a woman doctor would most likely make less than a man doctor, for reasons I just described. And they are both doctors; it's not a matter of career discrepancy.
As a woman in a professional setting each day, I ASSURE you that I have to work harder to get the same professional respect as the men here. I will point out that most of our executive and senior staff are men, and the suport staff are women. Because I don't work hard enough or am not smart enough to be in such a position? NO. Because there would be men fighting over the same position, and you bet one of them would get it hands-down.
I have monopolized this entree long enough with this subject--maybe it needs its own entree--but I get so worked up about this stuff. I hope this made sense to you, Neo. It really isn't fair, you know, but about all I can do personally is get a sex change, and I like being a woman. I do. But I don't like being a second-class citizen.
Perhaps this subject needs it's own entree...I can't get out of a ticket by crying or by showing a little clevage. Neither can Baggs, in fact I'd bet we'd both either get beaten or arrested for trying.
The sexes will never be truely equal, just like races. We should all just get over it and try to shun folks that use sex (or race) to get ahead in any way.
Thanks, I like you too, i just haven't seen you in awhile.cinnamongirl, you are right, I just don't want to be associated with "those" people. Although I would still like to see the raw data, preferably not the data that NOW collected. ;-) Anyway, I'm sure that there are a lot of arguments for and against this case, but i will concede that generally yeah, and it is bullshit.
do you remember me coming over for beers one summer in burgh?
good times. Yeah, I remember. Hope life has treated you well since then. It's easy to lose touch in this accelerated world.
i guess i opened my big mouth (or whatever metaphor is fitting for the speaking/typing thing...)
of course, i don't really believe what i said. and you guys are right. communication is an area lacking in intergender relationships. things suck all over the board, not one-sided like i may have portrayed. i apologize for starting this. i certainly wasn't expecting this (but i should have known better).
anyway, the way inequality works (and the fact that it exists at all) in our society sucks. and i try to combat it whenever i see an opportunity. but i guess i am just sick of hearing how horrible and stupid men are, and essentially getting the blame for it. i still maintain that I am dumb. i've never broken anyone's heart, nor abused anyone, nor lied to any women, etc. maybe im being bold here, but i think i can safely claim to have been a perfect gentleman in every situation i have ever encountered with a woman, and often strive very hard to consciously work at this. and yet, all too often i find myself the only guy in a group of bitter women discussing how horrible men are. and i either nod and keep my mouth shut, or i attempt a defense only to get hostily attacked. neither situation is very fun. and i don't think i deserve it.
whatever, maybe im just too sensitive. or maybe im just too bitter. or maybe im just angry about how much it sucks to be as lonely as i feel these days. kill me now
I wasn't attacking anyone personally...I was just up on my soapbox & sharing my feelings on how things are still unequal in this world (which I obviously feel strongly about). Baggins, I know you would stand up for anyone being mistreated, and someone nice will see that eventually and you won't be lonely anymore. There are lots of nice women in the world, just as there are mean ones. It's not true when anyone generalizes and says "guys are all jerks"--it doesn't solve anything.I hope no one feels attacked--it's important to talk about this stuff, even though it evidently got a little volatile. I'm probably to blame for that, with the ginger temper, and I apologize. I'm glad there are intelligent and feeling people on the Diner with whom to do discuss these issues. I still wanna start an entree about this stuff, though I have never created one and don't really know what to say.
It's not just a gender thing. One of my closest friends is gay, and I know she gets tons of shit for it--especially from her own family, who are fundamental Christians (what did Jesus say again???). I've seen my boyfriend get treated differently than me the minute someone hears his name or otherwise finds out he is Latino, and I'm sure it'd be even worse if he didn't look as white as he does. The sad fact is, there are some nasty people in the world and they want to take it out on anyone they feel is different or less than them.
It's true that mean people suck.
That a statement like that makes sense to everyone here is proof positive our society still has a long way to go. Even inside our own hearts.
I know that this doesn't have anything to do with this topic but, since you're dominating this forum (entree, whatever) I'll just ask here. Have you seen Joy lately? I remember you maybe going to the Abbey with her alot, maybe. Are you guys still in touch at all? Just wondering.
I thought hearing Noah flub the "shoot me in a dream..." quote was one of the funniest things in the world. Anyone remember his original quote?
"shit... if you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize!"
I saw Joy a few months ago at a party she was hosting. She lives with these "wacky artists" from Columbia College. They have a kick-ass cool apartment.Anyway, the party was...strange. Joy was at work when we got there and I didn't know anyone else there, so I felt really out of it. Then this guy pulled out a bottle of absinthe and offered some to us, but made me go in this weird, dark room where all these odd people were congregated with absinthe snifters and sugar cubes and stuff. I have always wanted to try absinthe, even before I saw Moulin Rouge. But Hernando got all upset and said he couldn't deal with my "doing drugs," so I passed up probably the only time I will ever get to try absinthe. Sad. Plus he thought the sugarcubes were laced with acid, but that was before I knew you're supposed to drizzle a sugarcube in absinthe.
Besides that bizarre night I have not seen her in a while. She used to live just a few blocks from me with Dan C. so I saw her a lot, but she moved in with these Columbia kids after Dan left to get his master's degree down south. She called me just a week or two ago to let me know she was having another party and I have yet to get back to her (though the party already took place--it was really rude of me). The point of this message is that I will have to listen to the message to get her new # and then I'll send it to you. We should all hang out sometime. I'll call Joy and tell her that. Let me know how I should contact you (e-mail, whatever) with her #.
Speaking of .80 to the $1, I'm going to get fired if I keep spending this many work hours on the Diner.
Ulysses: yeah, that's the real line, but it was hilariously mangled, and i don't remember exactly how it was mangled, Baggins, BigJ, welcome or someone else may remeber, perhaps?
I think Noah' version was "If you wake up in the middle of a dream, you better come over and shoot me and apologize." Something like that anyways.
Noah's version, too.
'If you dream about apologizing, you better wake up and shoot me'. i think welcome's is closer to what N originally said, though. funny shite.
Doyle, i hear ya. i knew there was nothing but love in this entree, no need to apologize. it is indeed a volatile subject, and causes tempers ('specially those sizzling ginger tempers) to flare up. thats because it sucks so bad.
speaking of Joy, i saw her and she invited me to one of those parties, i believe. anyway, it would be pretty cool to see her. and to see you again. when and where?
I had this dream this morning, during which myself and a number of other guys were being toyed with by a number of people of the female persuasion. To make a long story short, they made us wear pink shirts or else be shot, so when i was looking for one, i found first one that looked pink, but was red, and then one that was pink, but it was ugly so, i said to the guy next to me "fuck this, i'm going to steal one from ralph lauren" so we started going (yeah, all of a sudden we were in a mall) to the R.L. store and Andrew F. was giving me this dirty look so i said to him "fuck off you [i can't remember this descriptive word that i used] fag" and then he started chasing us into the store, shot my buddy, and had me cornered and was about to shoot me but then, ulyssess00 came in and woke me up, so i don't even know if I died or what!Anyway, i don't think that A.F. is a "fag" and I really don't use that word too often, if ever.
I'm just full of this shit lately, i think that I got caught offgaurd because it's late, and you guys are talking about "waking up" and shit, so it's your fault anyway.
Thank you for the reassurances, Baggins. I get a little out of control sometimes. I should be seeing y'all soon because I am definitely going to be at Goose Island this weekend for the show.Speaking of Joy, we should invite her to the show. I bet she'd like to go and see a lot of old friends, and I'd like to see her. I'm going to call her about it.
I called Joy and she said she's gonna do her best to be at the show, though she doesn't get off work 'til 11 p.m. Hopefully we'll all still be around when she gets there.She also told me Dan C. is going to be in town this weekend from Nashville, so I hope he will make an appearance. I love that guy--he's one the funniest people I've ever known.
Sorry, this really should be in Windy City Gossip--I have been posting way too many random things on this entree.
Random mutterings from Ron the NPU maintenance guy fixing our 1920's era shower .. .(during the Deep Freeze January 2003 Part I)
"My caulk is frozen! Aw, damn."
(say it out loud .. . .WAIT FOR IT . . .)
I was on the couch staring at the paper, and had to stifle random junior-high variety snickers for the rest of the day. My wife just started laughing out loud . . .
one of my favorite things to do is watch people repeatedly try to do things that can't be done. two examples:the gate to our apartment complex is, has been and probably always will be broken. we don't even have a key for it. but if you don't live here, you don't know that all you have to do is push it. walking up and seeing a pizza guy [or gal] bent over the ancient unusable buzzer system is very funny. particularly when you stroll right up, push the gate and walk right in.
and:
often after we've closed up at starbucks people will approach the locked door hopefully [though it's only about a mile to the next store and we close earlier than most]. they tug at the door a few times, see me scrubbing down machines, make eye contact and mouth 'are you closed?' and then try the door again anyway, then stand there, forlorn.
do a lot of places lock their doors when they are open for business?
But it's "over-seen"...(what?) anyhow I love when people walk into glass/screen doors, nothing is funnier. NOTHING!
i've walked into two screen doors in the past three years. and i'd have to agree, it's fucking hilarious.
at my work, when we're not answering our phones we have them all forwarded to voicemail. usually only after like 10pm and no later than 7am. this includes the courtesy phones located at O'Hare airport. there is one in each of the baggage claim centers as well as in the 'Bus/Shuttle Center' where we pick people up. there are a bunch of different hotels connected to this courtesy phone, and each has its own button.
our hotel's button is at the top of the Marriott section of buttons, and as a consequence, we get a lot of calls for the other Marriott's. mostly O'Hare Marriott. we get them several times a day. infact, sometimes we get more calls for them than we do legitimate calls for our service. these people are morons. they obviously don't realize they have to read, don't have a realistic scope of how big Chicago is, and that -Heaven Forbid!- there is more than one Marriott around. being dumb as hell, the people that make this mistake are aggravating to deal with on the phone. most just say sorry when they realize they pushed the wrong button. but some insist on being transferred (which i can't do on the cell phone they are calling), on asking ME information regarding another hotel i have nothing to do with, on wanting to book a reservation, etc. needless to say, there is NOTHING i can do for any of these peoples' problems. but they insist on calling us. sometimes my boss knowingly gives them incorrect information. i usually just tell them to call the O'Hare Marriott and then hang up. after all, they're wasting my time, they're not smart enough to read correctly, how are they ever going to know who hung up on them?
all this leads into a really funny voicemail that my boss actually saved for a while. it involves one of these dolts. some lady called and started on this hilarious desperate rambling monologue into our voicemail that got more frantic as it went on and went something like this:
"hello? hellllooooOOOooo... is there anybody there? can you hear me? oh shoot... i dont know what to do. im supposed to meet my sister, Jane Smith at your hotel. room xxxx... hello? oh shoot. what am i gonna do? what am i gonna do? im supposed to get picked up by you guys. isn't there a shuttle or something? hello? oh boy... i don't know what im gonna do... hello? my name is Vicky Smith... hellooOOoo... well, im just gonna have to hope you guys get this message and come pick me up. im at terminal 3 baggage claim terminal 3, American Airlines, baggage claim 4, Vicky Smith, staying with Jane Smith. helloooOOOooo?"
man was it funny. this lady was super frantic, and thought somebody could hear her while she was recording a voicemail. not the sharpest pencil in the box. and she called pretty late, after midnight at least. i listened to it every once in a while for a good laugh. keeps you sane sometimes when you're very bored.
In the same vein, we have had many, many, many stupid customers in my day. These are off the top of my head, but there are tons more each and every day
1) "Is the Chicken with Wild Rice soup vegetarian?"
2)(at least once a week) "Ill have the 'U Pick Two' with the (insert three items here)....what? you only get two?"
3) "The coffee's self-serve??? (stomps in a 360 with her hands in the air, fuming) I'm NEVER coming back HERE again! (stomps out)
4) (returning item) "I didn't know the chicken salad had mayonaisse in it"
And my favorite:
5) "Yech! This isn't a cappuccino"
'yes it is'
"Nonono...a REAL cappuccino tastes like vanilla"
It's the speedway commercials, i think.
odd that you should mention that, since i worked at Speedway for 16 months. that place blew. the customers there were quite stupid. always wondering why we couldn't sell beer at 4:30am, why we couldn't sell cigarettes to a 14 year-old, etc. i don't remember too many now off the top of my head, but man were they dumb...
can certainly reassure you that 98% of consumers are dumb.... And the other 2% hate shopping or eating out cause they are embarrassed by the idiocy of the rest of humankind.
I completely agree with the retail statistic, blvdgirl. But anyway, I was in Blockbuster the other day in the later evening and someone came in looking for the bathroom. Now as most of you know, places that have "no public restroom" signs posted mean just that, and having worked at Blockbuster before, I know that they'll usually bend the rule for a kid or something. But this peroson was being really nasty and finally said, "I know you guys have a bathroom. What do you do when you have to go?" And the guy at the counter looked her dead in the eye and said with a straight face, "We go to the restaurant across the street. That floored the customer, and me too, I might add. I couldn't stop laughing for awhile.
There is a lot of animal in human beings. When I see something like that, it makes me think of one creature outsmarting another in that cold, absolute, real-world kind of way. It's like I'm watching a Marty Stouffer program on PBS.It's not good -- don't get me wrong. When the customer finds out from a friend who works at Blockbuster that they don't actually go across the street, he/she is going to be furious at having been duped, and someone will pay... it might not be the guy at Blockbuster... but someone will pay.
for 4 years. over that time, i heard a number of funny things, mostly from my own coworkers.one of my favorites was when my team was sent into a temple when they complained about the last group (the photographer was wearing a christmas tie.) before we started, my coworker asked me, "so, what do you call a jewish church?"
Confessions of a Church Photographer
but my mom used to be a bank teller ( making about twice as much as any male teller, B.T.W.) and this guy from the mexican restaurant next door would come in every once in awhile to make a deposit or whatever, get change to open with and what not, but he didn't speak english, so he would write down what he neede on paper and my mom would get it for him. So he wrote down the bills and change he wanted and the last thing he wanted were pennied, now, spanish being a "phonetic" language, he spelled pennies, "penis" and my mom thought that was pretty funny. So she let him in on the big secret that she spoke spanish. I really though that was funny, i hope you do too.
There are countless stories floating around ski resorts about dumb questions. Some good ones:"Where do you put the man-made snow in the spring?" "What do you do with the moguls when all the snow melts?"
We also had a lady that was looking at the lift building, which I admit looks a little odd, and asked "When does the lift start?" - The lifty replied, "It is running, see the chairs moving?" Woman: "No, not the chairs, when does the lift start?" She was pointing at the building. I had to leave because I was laughing so hard when the lifty had to explain to her that what she thought was a lift was really a building and it didn't move.
so,at that party last nite:
before discovering $10.26, i was dancing with a girl on the temporary dance floor. i leaned over to her and shouted in her ear: "DO YOU HAVE A CIGARETTE?!?"
without saying a word, still dancing, she grabbed my arm and rolled up my shirt sleeve. she then rolled up her own sleeve, revealing a nicotine patch. she peeled the patch off her arm, slapped it on mine, and rolled my sleeve back down.
that is love.
i think.
sitting in Potbelly's
Sitting in potbelly's:"Are you kidding, that guy would eat my puke!"
Didn't the running title of your autobiography used to be"Smile, and say 'Jesus'."?
If only it were already written, and I were living off of the money from it.....
i saw her at Ed's on saturday. instantcofi... email me her phone number. i told her i would get it from you and call her. and she didn't believe me. so now i HAVE to. and i want to.
"you guys look like you know how to cook some shit up" - to pedro and a i when asking about buying the dr. martin oil, the sale man thought we could just look at the ingredients instead.
I had forgotten about that!"Yeah man, here!" -- and I handed him some tainted crystal meth I made in my basement. And he died!
* Dear DEA: that was a joke.
Apologies--In the article "Lack of parking is a pressing concern," by Katie Peterson, Gry Irlnd was misquoted. He never said the students at North Park were "lazy."
the students at any college are lazy!There are too many stupid quotes to think of from Ruby's, but they were mostly overheard conversations of really stupid people. And hey, I'd eat Karah's puke! I mean come on who wouldn't?! But then I have a never ending supply of gum, which helps.
MMMMMMMMM puke breath...
"i'd be so pissed if i were a school kid... to have my snow day robbed my president's day."-neoacerbitas, commenting on footage of the east coast blizzard on TV today.
that's "to have my snow day robbed by president's day"
but that was a typo.
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at nitrogen.nac.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
[Chinese friend]: What's the English word to describe when two people are really on the same wavelength and don't have to use a lot of words to communicate.[Me]: Simpatico.
me: "i think i decided what i want to be when i grow up."pete: "what?"
me: "a philosopher king."
pete: "a falaffel king?"
me: "mmm... that's a good idea too"
Friend: Emus -- aren't those like ostriches?Me: Yeah.
Friend: I think I saw a special on TV about emus having sex.
Me: Was it called the Emu-Sutra?
"Anyone that tells you there's no such thing as good guys and bad guys is full of shit.I ride a white horse, and I shoot silver bullets.
I believe my side will ultimately lose, but I refuse to quit.
To my compatriots, keep fighting the good fight."
"have a big glass of water before you go to bed. then you'll have a reason to get up in the morning."(i was going to put this in "spoonful of advice" but thought it was more natural to put it here.)
I've always liked the really gotta pee alarm clock, but somtimes you just end up sleeping and wet, :)
sad as it seems.
"Pants are overrated."
- large man working at a local coffee shop. Kinda made me squemish to think about....
while punching straight up into the air to imitate a "short lesbian fisting" her:short lesbian: who's your daddy?
margaret: um, eileen?
short lesbian/eileen: that's right bitch!
"Last night Christy asked me, 'Do you even like wine?'. Strange question. I do like wine, but probably not enough to have a wine cellar. I guess mostly I like building things."to which i'd most likely reply:
"i guess mostly i like consuming things."
i just got off the phone with a court secretary for Potter County, Texas. i got a speeding ticket there in january and after my car got towed here, i forgot about it. anyway, when the cop took down my info, he messed up my name, putting down my first name as my last name, my middle name as my first name, and my last name as my middle name. i guess he just thought "stuart" was a more appropriate first name than "grady." anyways, this woman on the phone is telling me to write down this new case number to put on the check i send, because if its the OLD case number, it'll be the one with my switched-around-name and it would never go through and my liscence could get supended. so i say, "we'll its not my fault the cop messed up my name." and she says:
"i know, i know.... i'm fixin' to fix it."
texas, ladies and gentlemen.
"I bet his dyed black hair must be so comfortable in the scorching heat." -- Coneyisland
I guess I made the quote of the day.
What is that thing? It looks like Orthanc.
...looks like it's made of styrofoam.
"Damn. Good thing He-Man wasn't his role model."
"The Security Council is not responsible for what is happening outside the U.N." -- German Foreign Minister Joschka FischerI thought they wanted people think they were important, I guess not....
"I love how the news is all about defeating hussein's REPUBLICAN guard, and installing a DEMOCRATIC government"
"I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean."
"SAVE ME JEBUS!"
"It's amazing that anything gets done in this office."-my boss, looking up from a game of Battlefield 1942 to comment on my discussion with a coworker regarding why a "Sticky Shark" toy was no longer sticking to things
"Put it in your mouth."-solution offered by co-worker RE: sticky shark
i was chatting with this girl online the other day, and no, not that girl. so, she said something about going somewhere on a road trip after graduating and i was like yeah dude, roadtrips and then blah blah blah blah blah blah and then she said (quote)?where do you get off??(endquote) and i was like, huh? and she was like (quote)?nothing?(endquote) and i was like, yeah.
finally after resolving my damnable confusion we realized that she was asking when i got off work, she then came by to visit me in the computer lab ese cee ele.
tom you're awesome.
I do find it amazing that anything gets done in that office. And you make it a big deal to play crib with me on yahoo! Which we should do again!
im home right now. we should play some yahoo euchre. IM me on AIM at Melkorravenclaw. or call my house. 708.301
2810
"Where's MY Honduran friend?"
Yo, I have no AIM at work, and can have none, but I am free to play almost everyday at noon, that is my lunch and that is when I play the most. And I will play Euchre with you, we will kick much booty. Just drop me an email I will send you one to get you my email address.
"I just want to make sure I have my own final destination." --woman sitting at the next table over at breakfast.
Perhaps this should go in the current events Entree?Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse. ~Bill Press
when people start asking you for help.
My Friend: so, i keep getting offers from old guys to blow me for money
My Friend: and i am seriously considering it
My Friend: getting a blow job and getting paid
My Friend: my other option is to find gus van sandt, who lives in my neighborhood, and convince him my life is worth making a movie about
Me: or you could do both. make a movie about you getting blowjobs.
My Friend: my own private idaho
My Friend: he did it already
Me: oh.
Me: you could be the sequel.
My Friend: my own private oregon
"Army worms are for hating, not drinking."
"I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out."-- AP reporter Lara Jakes Jordan, while inteviewing Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)
But I sure can rock the Jesus into you!
Question: Why does the Friar say, "Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes," to Romeo?
Answer: cuz he thinks romeo is just crushing on juliet
That's hysterical!
so spot on.
When teachers give students pop quizzes they should hire a midget to stand by the door and hit you in the nuts as you come in. That way a pop quiz won't seem that bad.
that student is smart.
"I'm a jack-of-all-trades and a master of none""Life is all about getting enough to eat"
Some guy, regarding the Auburn athletic dormatory that fire burned over 30 books:
"The real shame was that over half of them hadn't even been colored yet."Another guy at a party (hot girl just walks in):
"WELCOME TO PARTY BABY! THE-PARTY-IS-RIGHT-HERE!" (points to his face).
that was me, and i take that personally. (the party's right here)
<Sned> is red vinegar considered christian rock?
<pedro> sned: I don't think we would consider ourselves a christian band, although we're all practicing christians (or however you want to express that)
<twoply> i'm also practicing. someday hopefully i'll actually be good at it
<pedro> twoply: haha, yeah... i'm gettin' ready for the Big Game against the satanists
<twoply> yes, the Fall Classic
Armageddon a pain in my side after reading that.
My wife after hearing that I'll vote for whatever Democrat runs against Bush: "So you're not going to throw your vote away on Nader this time around?" :)
Yes, the Nader voters learned their lesson. Too funny!
...is never a "throwaway."but thats a topic for a different page.
anyways, ive been meaning to post this one on this page for a while:
Back when i was living with Hemingstein and Dietrich, i had a year of free magazine subsrciptions to about a half-dozen rags like rolling stone, premeire, newsweek, time, and details and shit like that...
anyway, i walked into the apartment one day, and aaron was sitting on the floor with a copy of newsweek. he acted really excited to see me and said:
"OH! hey! i'm glad you're here, i was just about to drink a bunch of cyanide and kill myself, and i was wondering if you wanted to join me... see, i was thinking it was better to be dead than to be living in..."
and then he held up the magazine and read the text on the cover (which had a smiling photo of oprah winfey)"THE AGE OF OPRAH!"
i about pissed myslef.
Hemingstein's flair for the sarcastic/dramatic always cracks me up.
OPRAH IS THE BANE OF EVERY HOUSEWIFE IN AMERICA
Oprah is in fact the bane of all men who live with housewives in America!!
After all, some of them must despise her too.
of course. but even some who despise her still watch her show.
Heard early one morning after the Counting Crows' version of Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi ("They paved paradise to put up a parking lot"): "And what would look better in that parking lot than A BRAND NEW MERCEDES??!!", hyping their Mercedes giveaway.
Shatner's ex-wife sues over horse semen
I'm getting really tired of seeing eric and kathy's smug mugs on every bus in this town...
08:31 <pedro> Whose defense do you believe more? Sammy Sosa 85% 67966 votes Martha Stewart 15% 12448 votes
08:32 <@sneakums> I didn't know Martha had been accused of corking her bats.
Martha really corks my bat...
Yesterday while leaving the gym I saw a interesting t-shirt.It said: I hate Fight Club.
Coney if it wasn't so outdated I would ask the person where he got one and get one myself, I thoroughly disliked the movie, and I'm pretty forgiving about movies the last two I haven't liked have been that and the Matrix 2, but I'm thinking I need to see the Matrix again so I can see if it redeems itself with a second viewing.
I guess the verdict is out:1) He thinks it's really cool to hate Fight Club, but really likes Fight Club and just wear the shirt to be cool
2) He really likes Fight Club.
3) He really hates Fight Club.
I'm hoping for number 3. It's hard when three of your best friends call it their favorite movie, so I have a strong distaste for it. Not that it's cool for me to hate it, it's because I never liked the movie to begin with.
I hated the twist in the end.
i just did. it's not really all that deep a commentary on existentialism or the human condition or anything. but i enjoy it anyway. i guess i am a sucker for clever. sometimes.
...but I think that fight club is a good candidate for "last movie of the millenium," if that makes any sense.
I found Fight Club entertaining, but I wouldn't spend too much time thinking about it; sorta the same way I feel about the Matrix...fun, smarter than most, but not the kinda gal I'm going to spend the rest of my life with...or something like that. Whatever.
i like fight club. it was entertaining movie. personally, i also see it as cautionary in a way-over-the-top sort of way, because i have a family history of mental disorders triggered by insomnia.
...I'm reminded of the madness of Rousseau and French Romanticism... wait, I've already thought too much.
"Always take pictures. Assume no one else will."
-http://www.lileks.com/bleats/index.htmlI used to carry a camera with me literally everywhere I went. I used it as a watch and wore it like I was some strange kind of mechanic, with an elph instead of a leatherman. click.
"The summer I spent as a Northrup King Seed Salesman in the south was mostly a miserable time; I was lonely, and was reasonably certain my camp-counselor girlfriend was cheating on me. (She was. With a lifeguard. And it was Bible camp!)"...ahh, it was a strange moment when I realized that counselors could sin at Bible camp.
I have written possibly...5 papers on fight club for film school. its an overrated film in the regualar world and an underrated film in the film world. Film students love it, film teachers do not. Who's right? We are the students we have to be, ha ha. Anyhow,
and Oscar Wilde is brilliant, but really harsh.Jack: What extraordinary ideas you have about how to behave to a woman.
Algernon: The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
alh and I were walking down foster avenue on the way back from taste of heaven, and there was a red light on foster at clark. This banana yellow jeep pulls up with the top down, and there was a dude in there listening to his music at about 300 decibels. Like low-riding techno volume.The music was "Dancing Queen," by Abba.
I couldn't help myself from laughing, not in some kind of disapproving way, but because it was just such a funny moment, and I was imagining the dude in there just high on life driving around on a beautiful night in a jeep listening to good* music. I can totally appreciate that. I have totally appreciated that. But it was still funny.
The guy saw me laughing in his rear view mirror and made a look like, "What??? I like ABBA!"
So I felt bad. But then I laughed some more after he drove off.
* for subjective levels of good
Pedro, yesterday me & my friend Chad, who is in town, were sitting in my sister's room talking, and we had the window open, and I suddenly heard--REALLY loud--A-Ha's "Take on Me" coming from the apartments next door, which is kind of ABBA-esque, don't you think? We both laughed our asses off, because who blasts A-Ha? But "Take on Me" IS a great song. I don't blame them. And they were really in earnest about it, because the music had not been loud before and was not loud after that song ended. It was sweet.
they really wanted someone to take them on.
pedro, I retract my compliment about you being holden-like.
I can delete that post! Don't take it back, that was the best ego stroking I've received in days! A-Ha is really crummy! See!
'take on me' rules.
80'sI agree! I like that song. But not at mind-shearing volume. I had a neighbor who would blast Fleetwood Mac. I wanted to slash my wrists. I also had a neighbor who blared "Invisible Touch" by Genesis every so often which I thought was kinda cool.
I wrote in that post about A-Ha. God, such grammar. I think that stupid test I took on Saturday has burnt out a few million brain cells. Anyway, I don't know much about the group--I'm assuming they're a one or few hit wonder--but that song is cool (in my book). The video was cool, too. Remember it was this girl, and then the band is in a comic book or something, but then she steps through some door and they come to life? Or something like that. Those were the Golden Days of MTV, my friends.
olivia newton john. which was one of the first things i heard coming at full blast from a new neighbor's apartment in l.a. if you want something crummy, take olivia newton john and turn her up as loud as she gets on the crummiest boombox you can find and then move your crummy furniture all around your crummy apartment while everyone else tries not to hear your faux disco music.but these days all i overhear are trucks rumbling down highway sixty-one and little dogs yapping their heads off while they get shaved and preened, presumably to embarrassing heights.
is that that apartment is named "xanadu"
<@Zen> I just figured out the good way for them to end the [Matrix] series.
<@CrackMonkey> yeah
<@Zen> "Whose Matrix was it?"
<@CrackMonkey> like
<@CrackMonkey> keanu could wake up, and he'd be back in bill & ted, just like the end of the second newhart series
<@Zen> Woah.
<@CrackMonkey> ever see the last episode of newhart?
<@CrackMonkey> he wakes up on the set of the old bob newhart show
<@Zen> Heard about it.
<@CrackMonkey> haha
<@Zen> It was his old show, right?
<@Zen> yeah
<@CrackMonkey> like
<@CrackMonkey> he had dreamed the whole second show
<@CrackMonkey> which is a good end to a crappy series
<@CrackMonkey> Newhart < The Bob Newhart Show
But I really did like Newhart.
"You look just like the 4th of July....makes me want a hotdog REAL BAD!!!"
a girl behind me said, "that was the dumbest movie I have ever seen.....it was good, but...." I had to turn her off at that point.
Theology is wrestling God down into our limited point of view, and then forcing that point of view into a language that is lacking a handful of essential God dimensions.
What is truth?
who would i want to read to read about the idea of 'truth as negotiation'?
...I've never heard of such an idea, but Wiberg might be able to help you out.
Off hand, it sounds political so it might be based on an idea of consensus so maybe Rawls, but again I defer to Kerry.
perhaps i'll ask him.
baggins, I talked to Kerry and he had no idea either, and Rawls won't be helpful. Sorry.
Is "truth as negotiation" a specific theory of truth, or is the "negotiation" part of it up for... eh, negotiation? If it is, then it just might be a way of talking about dialogical truth.
"dude, you can have your dumb diner."--puss about 2 months ago after i kindly explained to her why having her be a presence here wouldn't be so great for either of us. (not to mention all of you).
i was waiting till enough time had passed before it was safe enough to post it.
btw, this is my favorite entree.
perhaps we should start a Philosophy entree? i will do that, and then explain further...
said by Pedro to me, about 4 years ago, when we were both sizing up the other person's Discman and mine appeared to have a feature that his didn't:"You know, I probably wouldn't want that feature anyway."
*beat*
"Yeah, actually I would."
"You know, I probably wouldn't want that feature anyway..."* pause and jealous realization *
"No... I really do."
I'm not sure if we can quite explain to anyone else how and why that was so funny.